Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Ruby Tuesday

Remember you can post anythingRED - a lot of RED or a little bit of RED.

THIS IS EDDIE'S GARDEN

Eddie's Garden in Flushing Meadows Corona Park was created in honor of Adrian Edward Cooper. This is all the information I could find.

This was a particularly lovely garden that I came across by accident in Flushing Meadow Park during a day's outing there. When I read "donated by a good friend" with no further information my eyes filled with tears. To think someone loved "Eddie" enough to create, or have created, this beautiful garden. The "friend" obviously needed no recognition for his very sensitive good deed.

While we were at the Park we kept noticing there were people, not park employees, cleaning up the park: picking up trash and paper and putting it in plastic bags.

I stopped two of them and asked why they were cleaning up the Park. Both of them were from London and were with Citicorp global who was having a conference in Manhattan and this was a team-building day. They greeted me with friendly smiles and I thanked them for cleaning up MY park. They said they were surprised the park was so clean. They said they kept asking themselves "Where's the trash?"

These are the gloves that the Citicorp people wore while doing their good deeds. Yes, of course the gloves wereRED.

I'd really appreciate it if you would sign Mr. Linky AND make a comment. This makes it a little easier for me to visit everyone. If you do one and not the other then I have to check back and forth to see if I've visited you already. Thanks very much.

I now have a Mr. Linky widget for Ruby Tuesday. Feel free to go there and use it!

87 comments:

Eddie's Garden is beautiful and it is such a wonderful tribute for a friend. The gloves! How do you keep find these magnificent reds! Happy Ruby Tuesday - thank you for being a friend to blogers for this.

I didn't sign up to the linky because I'm not a Ruby Tuesday-er. (How did you like my new word?) But Mary - those flowers. They made my heart swell. Very touching story about the friend and the clean-up crew.

Hi Mary, I love your personal experiences at Eddie's Garden during your visit. I have not been there.Evidently Wikipedia.en has been there. I couldn't find that article but someone on his/her Flicker photo wrote most of what the Wikipedia people had.http://www.flickr.com/photos/elissacorsini/1969887883/

Mine is also from a visit, blog excerpts from some posts of our trip to Russia...

Those are gorgeous flowers. I've got to wonder about the team-building though. I mean, it's definitely a noble and worthy thing they are doing, but my experience of team building generally involves drama games or sport. Just thought it was an odd activity for the purpose. I bet if I go away and think about it, I could come up with a rationale for the activity.

Dear Teach,I so appreciate the way you have opened my eyes to details in my surroundings. Your Eddie's garden pictures are just wonderful, so are the gloves.Don't you love it when some think tiring like plucking weed can be brightened by putting on a pair of red gloves? (Mine have been turquoise this year. Also colorful)Have a most rubingly Tuesday!From Felisol

I got around to a lot of people today but if I didn't get to you don't worry I'll visit you, I promise, tonight or tomorrow for sure. Thanks everybody for posting and making Ruby Tuesday such a success! :)

Looks like your Ruby Tuesday meme is really catching on. I see posts all over the place and there are TONS of links here. Good for YOU! I keep meaning to participate and may do so sometime soon, but this week I did HoTs on Tuesday at Small Reflections and posted nothing at Sacred Ruminations … primarily because I’m obsessed with the Olympics at the moment.Hugs and blessings,

Eddie's Garden is such a delightful way to honour a friend! In some ways, the whole story does not matter, only that people feel the friendship and perhaps pass on the same tribute to another in some way!